Sister to John F. Kennedy. Married Robert Sargent Shriver (1953). executive vice president, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation (1950- ); Board of Directors Special Olympics, Inc. (1968- ). Recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Legion of Honor, the Prix de la Couronne Francaise, the Mary Lasker Award, the Philip Murray-William Green Award (presented to Eunice and Sargent Shriver by the AFL-CIO), the AAMD Humanitarian Award, the NRPAS National Volunteer Service Award, the Laetare Medal of the University of Notre Dame and the Order of the Smile of Polish Children.
Materials related to Eunice Kennedy Shriver can be found in the Joseph P. Kennedy Papers (#136), the John F. Kennedy Personal Papers (#1), the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Papers (#139), and the R. Sargent Shriver Papers (#214). There are also photographs found in the Kennedy Family Photograph Collection.
Oral History Interview (1968): Eunice completed an interview for the John F. Kennedy Library; JFK #1, 5/7/1968. This interview comments upon her lobbying efforts for the cause of mental retardation, the development of the Task Force on Health and Social Welfare, the National Institute of Child Health and the 1963 White House Conference on Mental Retardation, among other issues.